People Power Needed to Buy '130 Davey Street' for the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Thursday
10 November 2011
Image: 130 Davey Street, Raquel Ormella, 2005. (Photo: Peter Robinson)
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Foundation has launched an appeal to buy 130 Davey Street, a major artwork by Raquel Ormella, exhibited at CAST Gallery in May 2011.
A portrait of The Wilderness Society’s national operations base in Hobart, 130 Davey Street straddles the boundaries of historic artefact and contemporary art, and is an important record of this significant Tasmanian organisation.
Rendered in permanent marker on whiteboards, the artwork powerfully evokes the organisation’s energy and processes, and also metaphorically references the potential erasure of wilderness areas, the primary driver of Wilderness Society actions.
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery needs public support to buy this artwork for the State Art Collection. Donations to support the purchase of the artwork can be made online by clicking this link.
More details are available on the Foundation’s Facebook page.
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